An Adafruit Raspberry Pi extravaganza

The folks at Adafruit are busy as a bee working on bringing some of their really cool boards to the Raspberry Pi platform. Here’s a few that came in over the last few days:

16 servos is almost too many

Servos require a PWM output but the Raspi only has hardware support for PWM on a single GPIO pin; certainly not enough to build a gigantic, city-leveling robot. [Kevin] over at Adafruit put together a tutorial for using this 16 channel servo driver with the Raspi.

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The real beauty of the Raspberry Pi is you don’t even need any extra hardware to do all sorts of cool things. We already have a full-featured Asterisk PBX running on the RPi complete with Google Voice for free calling throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as free worldwide calling through iNum access points. http://nerd.bz/QTtlIB

You can take it for a spin by calling 1-843-284-6844.

With a little luck, we’ll have the complete writeup on Nerd Vittles later next week.

The 4/8 bit “Hitatchi” LCDs are fairly standard. Any random LCD you see on a website that’s serial or I2C is *usually* just one of these LCDs with a $20 “backpack” circuit on it, that just contains an AVR or a PIC and converting the digital to serial, etc…